OUR commitment to reducing our waste

The human-created tragedy of the South Pacific Garbage Patch

The exact size of the Garbage Patch is hard to pin down because so few oceanographic cruises have crossed this area with an objective to systematically sample plastics. Also, ocean features are a moving target and the borders and content of the area constantly change with ocean currents and wind.

Regardless of how big it is or where it is located, it is clear that the Pacific Garbage Patch does not belong in our ocean and we need to learn more about this feature so that we can properly address it.

Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) (about the size of Texas) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.4% to 8% of the size of the Pacific Ocean), or, in some media reports, up to “twice the size of the continental United States”.

The human-created tragedy of the South Pacific Garbage Patch

The exact size of the Garbage Patch is hard to pin down because so few oceanographic cruises have crossed this area with an objective to systematically sample plastics. Also, ocean features are a moving target and the borders and content of the area constantly change with ocean currents and wind.Regardless of how big it is or where it is located, it is clear that the Pacific Garbage Patch does not belong in our ocean and we need to learn more about this feature so that we can properly address it.

Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) (about the size of Texas) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.4% to 8% of the size of the Pacific Ocean), or, in some media reports, up to “twice the size of the continental United States”.

Jo-Ann Fox

Paul Williams

Lisa Highfill

Single-use plastic is having a profoundly negative effect on sea life.

CUE is committed to reducing waste at our events…

and here’s where we are going to start:

Reduce – Reuse – Recycle

Event Bags

Beginning with Spring CUE 2018 will not be supplying event bags at our conferences. This will be a reduction of nearly 10,000 bags and a reduction in the associated shipping and packaging waste. Bring your bag to CUE just like you would at the grocery store!